Yates: End Ohio gay-marriage ban

5:26 PM,
Nov. 11, 2009

Written by

Jon Craig
jcraig@enquirer.com

COLUMBUS - State Rep. Tyrone K. Yates wants Ohioans to vote May 4 on repealing the state's ban on gay marriage, but he acknowledges it's a long shot.

The Walnut Hills Democrat introduced a resolution in the Ohio House this week that would repeal part of a 2004 amendment to the state constitution to do that. But the resolution needs 60 votes in the 99-member House, and 20 of 33 votes in the GOP-controlled Senate to get on the statewide ballot.

"I've gotten some of the most touching correspondence I've ever received,'' Yates said Wednesday after word spread about House Joint Resolution 7. "I've ...